PREPARE OF FUTURE DOCTORS FOR INTERCULTURAL INTERACTION IN PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Abstract

 The article is devoted to the definition of the concept of "intercultural environment of future doctors" and the outline of the ways of forming the specified construct in the educational process of institutions of higher medical education. It is noted that the problem of forming the readiness of future doctors for intercultural interaction in professional activity was not the subject of a separate study and needs practical development. The research methods are the analysis of scientific literature, student questionnaires to identify the attitude of medical students to the intercultural environment in which they study. We considered the approaches of scientists to defining the essence of the concepts of "training", "professional training", "speciality training".

It is noted that professional training is a certain logically structured unity of organizational and psychological-pedagogical measures that ensure the formation of students' professional knowledge, abilities and skills, personal and professional competences, which collectively form their personal and professional readiness. It was determined that the intercultural environment of future doctors is a process of revealing professional and personal potential due to the assimilation of domestic and foreign students of experience of cooperation and partnership in the medical field, exchange of information, advanced ideas and technologies. It was established that an important aspect of the professional activity of future doctors is their readiness for effective interaction with representatives of other cultures in their further professional activities, the formation of their ability to exchange professional experience in the field of medicine with domestic and foreign partners. It has been proven that the professional training of future doctors causes the necessity the formation of intercultural communication during training in institutions of higher medical education.